Due to the maturity acquired by the new technologies, the research work developed within the project of the Virtual Reconstruction of the monastery of San Millan de la Cogolla, is focused on the use of VR techniques in very different environments, such as historical documentation or artistic purposes. This project consists of the development of a VR application with spreading aims. The research...

A growing demand is felt today for realistic 3D models enabling the cognition and popularization of historical-artistic heritage. Evaluation and preservation of Cultural Heritage is inextricably connected with the innovative processes of gaining, managing, and using knowledge. The development and perfecting of techniques for acquiring and elaborating photorealistic 3D models, made them pivotal ...

Ancient architecture is an important cultural symbol of a nation, which has high historical, artistic and technology of cultural value. A building not only carries the creator of effort, but also the past with the future of the historical traditions and humanistic significance. It is not purely construction of artistic expression, even more the witness of the production and development of socia...

This work documents a design-led process of discovery for artistic development of real time 3D animations functioning as a visual extension to a live music performance. Musical dynamics, patterns, and themes are transposed into a visual form that develops over time through a carefully orchestrated process driven by the artist and the computer. Historical animations by Fischinger, Whitney, and “...

The text contains information on the history of pedagogical thought. author’s intention was to show universal goals and educational values ideals throughout (from antiquity present).

This chapter presents an overview of the latest artistic portrait rendering techniques. Artistic rendering or portraits can be viewed as an image generating process controlled by two factors. The first one is the face fidelity, namely, a rendered portrait image should preserve a certain amount of the original face’s information. The second factor is the artistic style, for example, sketch, pain...

This paper describes a method for learning statistical models of 2D curves, and shows how these models can be used to design line art rendering styles by example. A user can create a new style by providing an example of the style, e.g. by sketching a curve in a drawing program. Our method can then synthesize random new curves in this style, and modify existing curves to have the same style as t...

Neuroaesthetics is a young field of research concerned primarily with the neural basis of cognitive and affective processes engaged when an individual takes an aesthetic or artistic approach towards a work of art, a non-artistic object or a natural phenomenon. In September 2009, the Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference brought together leading researchers in the field to present and discuss cu...